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    Negotiating a people’s space: a historical, spatial and social analysis of the People’s Square of Shanghai from the colonial to Mao to post-Mao era
    Wu, Ming ( 2014)
    This research investigates spatial formations of the People's Square of Shanghai from the 1840s to the 2000s against a shifting history of political and ideological backdrops. The research explores how the Square was formed and reformed, how it was used, how it facilitated and restricted certain social uses, and how it both reflected and subverted, to an extent, a predominant political and ideological control. The thesis reveals new layers of spatial politics of the Square and adds new dimensions to our reading of the meaning of the city centre of the Chinese metropolis.
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    Phenomenology and experiential learning as an approach to teaching studio in architecture
    Smith, Ross T. ( 2014)
    This thesis proposes an approach to teaching design Studio in architecture which is phenomenological in theory, experiential in practice, constructivist in pedagogy, and phenomenographic in method. This is demonstrated in three graduate Studios: Live/Work, Sub Rosa, and Silence. Observations at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Rural Studio, and the University of Melbourne, interviews, student work, and student and academic peer feedback are drawn upon. It is concluded that the proposed approach should be used as a catalyst in the spectrum of conventional university architectural design Studio teaching with particular emphasis on establishing this method of teaching and learning at a Studio in a remote rural location.